Nobody talks
of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what
nurtures creative thinking.
Anita Roddick

Preventing Fires and other Disasters

There’s not much one can do to prevent
natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes and flooding.Our planet has witnessed an explosion of
natural and man-made disasters during the past few years.For most of us, it’s how we prepare in
advance that helps us to survive such calamities.

First responders, the
Red Cross, the Salvation Army and others have shown themselves invaluable for
coping with the aftermath of disasters…our Federal government, not so much.

One tragedy we see all
too often on the news are home fires.Mobile homes in particular seem especially vulnerable to devastating
fires, frequently with loss of life.Most, but not all fires can be prevented.We once lived in an area prone to lightning strikes
and our home electronics were frequently fried by such strikes.We always keep smoke detectors and fire
extinguishers throughout the home in the event of such strikes.

Here are a few tips from Consumer Reports on
preventing house fires:

Hire an expert.If you own an older
home, hire an electrician to inspect your home wiring.He might suggest adding arc-fault circuit
interrupter which detect electrical arcs caused by faulty wiring or damaged
appliances – 30,000 fires a year are caused by this.

Monitor Appliance Recalls.Register appliances when you purchase them so you’ll be notified of
safety recalls.For older appliances,
check SaferProducts.gov or Recalls.gov

Live Clean.Clean your dryer’s exhaust duct regularly to prevent
lint buildup.Grease buildup in range
hoods is another fire hazard as are wires hidden under carpets and rugs.

Get rid of flammable
debris near heaters, furnaces and other potential danger zones.

Stay safe with an
ounce of prevention and hopefully, we won’t be watching you and your family on
the evening news.

Duct tape is like the force, it
has a light side and a dark side and it holds the universe together.

The fantasy of an
impending zombie apocalypse may inspire urban survival fantasies in the most
level-headed of us, but zombie apocalypse or not, knowing how to survive the
breakdown of social amenities we take for granted is a legitimate skill. Here's
a look at the basic urban survival skills you need to know catered to your
skill set.

The
Stockpiler: someone with a wide
assortment of supplies but very little knowledge of how to actually do
anything.

The MacGyver: someone who can jury rig anything with duct tape, a
pencil, and a pack of chewing gum.

The
Survivalist: someone who can find
dinner in an old stump and keep warm using a roll of toilet paper and a rusty
coffee can.

We'll guide you along
the path to applying each type of skill to the main factors of survival:
shelter, water, food, and rescue. Before we go into the specifics for each
survivalist, we're going to look at the most important skill that applies to
everyone: Read more at:

New Hampshire has become a magnet for liberty-minded types. It's the home
of the Free State Movement and also home to the use of precious metals as
private currency via Shire Silver Cards.

Why New Hampshire? It is the "Live Free or Die" state without
a sales or income tax. It has low population density, which increases the
chances that the influence of the libertarians can be felt in the culture and
the Statehouse. It has lower business regulations than the rest of the country,
and wonderful homespun culture that turns out to be highly tolerant toward
cultural and political eccentricity.

The lowest value card, the half gram silver card is, at current spot
prices in $US, worth about $1.00. This puts it at levels that are similar to
the values of one ounce of silver back at the start of the country

Each card is the same size as a standard credit/debit card, but
contains actual value - not just a representation of value. With a simple yet
beautiful design for each denomination, these cards will impress everyone you
show them to.We have instructions on this website to guide people in making
their own versions of these cards. We plan to upload non-branded card graphics
that you may add your own brand to.

Those coupons from the Sunday newspaper circular will save you even
more if you wait until the item goes on sale…most items go on sale every 6-8
weeks.Always check the store brand
before you buy; it’s usually cheaper.You
can donate coupons, even recently expired ones, to military families
overseas at this site:

If the economy
is slowing down, how come it's so hard for me to keep up with it?

The Nanny
State Updates…

A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!

What Inflation
has done to our dollar-the cruelest form of tax

"It is a
continual tax on every single dollar that you own. As your money sits in the
bank, it is constantly losing value. Over time, the effects of inflation can be
absolutely devastating. For example, if you put 100 dollars in the bank in
1970, those same dollars today would only have about 17 percent of the
purchasing power that they did back then. In essence, you were hit by an 83
percent "inflation tax" and all you did was leave your money in the
bank.”

Where your tax
dollars go

The Obama
administration plans to spend between 16 and 20 million dollars helping students from Indonesia get master's degrees.

According to USA Today, 13 different government agencies "fund 209
different science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education programs —
and 173 of those programs overlap with at least one other program."

A total of $615,000 was given to the University of California at Santa Cruz to digitize
photos, T-shirts and concert tickets belonging to the Grateful Dead.

China lends us more money than any other
foreign nation, but that didn't stop our government from spending 17.8 million dollars on social and environmental programs for China.

The U.S. government once spent 2.6 million dollars to train Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly.

The Economist,
the London-based news weekly – and a supporter of President Obama’s candidacy in 2008 – highlights
the problem in its latest cover story, “Overregulated America.” They
note the irony: “The home of laissez-faire is being suffocated by excessive and
badly written regulation…

A candidate is someone
who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to protect them from each
other.

The Parting Thought – Does the government own
everything?

Collecting
rainwater now illegal in many states as Big Government claims ownership over
our water…

(NaturalNews) Many of the freedoms we enjoy
here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of
the free into the land of the enslaved, but what I'm about to share with you
takes the assault on our freedoms to a whole new level. You may not be aware of
this, but many Western states, including Utah, Washington and Colorado, have
long outlawed individuals from collecting rainwater on their own properties
because, according to officials, that rain belongs to someone else.

As bizarre as it sounds, laws restricting property owners from
"diverting" water that falls on their own homes and land have been on the books for quite some time in many Western
states. Only recently, as droughts and renewed interest in water conservation
methods have become more common, have individuals and business owners started
butting heads with law enforcement over the practice of collecting rainwater for personal use
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/029286_rainwater_collection_water.html#ixzz1nrGqDcCA

If you think about it, what do all the Presidential
candidates have in common?None of them
are addressing the real issues afflicting America, other than Ron Paul, they
each seem to embrace more socialism.